Are you considering implementing a formalized corporate training program? It is an investment that is likely to pay off. According to a recent study, organizations with training development programs in place enjoy up to 250% higher productivity. And the benefits do not stop there. Reduced turnover, higher employee engagement levels, increased innovation, and improved risk management are just some of the additional benefits companies realize when they implement a formal training and development program. Training also serves as a recruiting tool, as you are more likely to attract and keep good employees if you offer them development opportunities.

If your organization does not have a training and development program in place, it may seem daunting to get started. But it does not have to be. During this session, we will examine the reasons why it is so important to have a corporate training program in place and provide you with the practical steps you need to take to help you get started. Presented by Visibility Software.

In the Experience Age, organizations must know how to attract, motivate and retain talent that helps people grow and experience more of who they are. Successful Organizations in this age build People Strategies that are compatible with Growth Strategies, making rapid growth smooth and sustainable. Organizations still using “churn and burn” Information Age tactics to hire and motivate employees will experience a talent shortage, and the hallmark “people problems” that prevent them from breaking through their revenue ceiling, causing negative growth.

This session will help you begin to discover the wealth of talent right before your eyes, when you move your People Strategy into the Experience Age. At the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Attract the best and brightest talent
• Compensate and reward in a way that fits with who your employees are and what they really want
• Create and sustain a culture that encourages people to show up as their best selves
• Key reasons organizations use a performance management system
• Succession plan to always have an abundance of highly skilled and specialized talent
• Become the workplace that no one wants to leave

It’s time to re-think your business processes, in order to support the experience you need to deliver for smooth, sustainable success. Presented by Ed Krow, HR Strategist/Keynote Speaker/Author

Employee burnout has never been higher. Changes in the workplace, financial stress, politics and a pandemic have made for incredible uncertainty. Employees feeling burnt out can bring their negative feelings into their relationships with their co-workers and - worse - your customers. Stress and burnout can lead to physical problems, lost work time and lower productivity.

When burnt out employees are absent or resign, companies don't have the labor to meet output demands, leading to greater stress and burnout. In this session we will look at some ways employers have addressed employee burnout and what you can do to keep your workforce energized and focused. Presented by Net at Work.

Human Resources leaders have a lot on their plates, especially during these turbulent times. The future of work in America is full of changes. Trends like the gig economy, remote workforce, workforce aging, artificial intelligence, and changing demographics make it challenging to keep pace with evolving recruiting needs, workforce training, retention, and succession planning.

During this webinar, we will show how additional HR tech tools can automate manual steps throughout the recruiting, onboarding, and training processes, improve communications and evolve training beyond just compliance and basic classroom to gain training consistency and visibility across the entire company.

Staying current on employment laws is always a challenge, however, 2020 has been a groundbreaking year of complexity. Please join us and our guest speaker, Theresa Mongiovi, Esq. of Brubaker Connaughton Goss & Lucarelli LLC, for a webinar to review major 2020 updates in federal employment laws.

Topics include FFCRA and FMLA updates, I-9 forms, joint employer rules, payroll tax deferral considerations, wage and hour opinions, CDL guidelines, OSHA guidelines, NLRB updates, and other current changes in the federal law. Additionally, be prepared to proactively consider the impact of such movements as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter on your evolving workplace.

The findings and insights of the 2020 survey will be presented. The topics that will be addressed:

• The impact of performance management on organizational and individual performance
• How performance management has adapted during the “COVID-19 era”
• The frequency with which various types of performance discussions are held
• Key reasons organizations use a performance management system
• How performance is evaluated and tracked
• The proficiency of leaders conducting performance management discussions
• The use of technology as a performance management enabler
• The degree to which performance management will change in the future
• How organizations that have good performance management systems and processes differ from those that do not

Strategic HR represents a paradigm shift that challenges the status quo of HR’s role in business. It’s a roadmap for turning irrelevant and ineffective HR functions into strategic contributors and aligning your people with your business strategy.

Join Ed Krow, author of Strategic HR: Driving Bottom Line Results Through Your People, to learn more about how strategic HR can drive your organization’s success.

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has put us in an unprecedented situation. Many who normally commute to work were suddenly being thrust into unexpected remote work situation, and managers are no exception. Where before monitoring your team and staying engaged was as simple as yelling down the hall or calling a quick team huddle, now your team is spread half way across town and meetings can quickly become a game of phone tag to get everyone organized.

• How do you communicate with employees properly?
• How do you keep your team productive?
• How do you maintain your company culture and keep employees engaged from a distance?
• What do you as an owner or a manager need to adjust to be efficient?

35 million people are unemployed in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. And yet, some organizations are scrambling to fill positions that are critical for the success of their companies. How do you find the right candidates for your company, hire them and keep them on as valuable members of your workforce?

Join Brian Kelly, from Cost Management Systems to discuss these important topics:

• Diversity hiring
• Remote workforce
• Texting vs. traditional communication
• Electronic On-boarding
• Compliance Reporting automated

HR Managers continue to face difficult decisions concerning managing their workforce during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Some organizations are dealing with layoffs, organizational restricting, remote workers and even an increase in need for new employees. Payroll and Paid Time Off systems have been strained to accommodate tax credits, small business loans, paid leave and new federal and State regulation.

In this session, we will review the key elements your Human Capital Management (HCM) system needs to respond to these new challenges. Whether you are looking to change your HCM system or want to be sure that you have covered all the issues with your current HCM system, this session will help you understand what you need today – and in the future- to help your company grow and thrive in this changed environment.

Recent events have forced many HR professionals to consider which Human Capital Management (HCM) system deployment option makes sense for them: in the cloud or on-premise. There is no right answer and each organization needs to identify the answer to this question before proceeding with an upgrade or new HCM system selection. In this session we will look at that question from several perspectives:

• Security
• Cost – Upfront and Over Time
• Ongoing Expenses
• Data Flow and Control
• Company Culture and Goals
• Employee Engagement

Join us to learn more about this important trend in employee engagement. Topics will include:

• Current status of the employee experience
• What is Gamification
• Why Gamification is agnostic and applies to all business types
• How Gamification is being used to elevate the work from home experience:
• Isolate and heighten employee Focus
• Energize & Excite the remote work environment
• Facilitate Social Connectiveness
• Publicly Recognize Achievement
• Reward quickly and dynamically
• Maximize an employee’s sense of Value
• Empower and Scale your employees desire for Accomplishment
• Getting Results: Case Study

Continuous Performance Management concepts are simple but powerful. Joe Rotella, a SHRM top-rated speaker, and contributor to the SHRM Learning System, asks you to look inward at yourself and your organization to evaluate how effective you are as a leader. Joe shares 10 questions that provide insight into what makes CPM work. By asking yourself these questions, you’ll see where you can adjust your leadership approach to become more effective. You will learn:

• How effective leaders share mission, vision and value in a way that helps boost employee engagement and drives results
• How to put vision into action by setting goals with measurable results
• How to set clear expectations and manage for results
• Maintaining focus and keeping things on track by understanding the three dimensions of coaching

Aligning employee focus with organizational goals and objectives is more relevant today than ever before. Historically, for most employers, workforce locations were fairly stable and predictable. Employees worked with colleagues in office buildings and/or at job sites. In recent years, telecommuting, distance and remote working gained popularity within many industry sectors. Unexpected global events in 2020 rocked the workplace paradigm. Employees who drove to a central location to work and returned home at the end of the business day now have a new ‘normal’. Now, if and when possible, employees who can, work remotely to preserve their health and the health of their coworkers. How long with this new normal last?

Join us in a conversation on concepts to develop, deploy, and maintain training programs in your organization. Points of discussion:

• Align your people, processes, and technology to build a winning foundation
• Help employees gain skills to keep your organization at the top of your game
• Gain training consistency and visibility across the entire company
• Manage employee progress and performance

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) committed over $2 trillion to alleviate the impact of the pandemic on U.S. businesses. The CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which provided short term loans to companies with fewer than 500 employees and larger employers in the hospitality and restaurant industries. The loan is fully forgivable provided certain circumstances are met. Just what those circumstances entail generated many questions and has changed with successive administrative guidance and now new legislation. This webinar will address the latest in PPP forgiveness, including the extended “Covered Period,” the new 60/40 spending requirement, alternative payroll periods, eligible costs, and more.

Join FordHarrison attorney Ben Fryer and Jeff Mokotoff for an in-depth webinar discussion on best practices to determine the uses of loan proceeds, staffing, and payroll level objectives, and identify applicable time periods to obtain full loan forgiveness.

Featured Speaker:
Rachel Lyubovitzky, CEO
EverythingBenefits | www.EverythingBenefits.com

Employee benefits have evolved since the beginning of the year. We’ll discuss the changes and review the following topics:

• No longer one size fits all basic benefits (Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Pension, etc.)
• How increasing student loan debt factors into recruiting and retainment.
• Reigning in high healthcare costs
• Chronic Condition benefits/management
• Wellness Tech and benefits for being “wellness proactive”
• Innovative voluntary and fringe benefits
• Pet insurance
• “Free lunch” day, executive sponsored breaks, etc.

35 million people are unemployed in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. As you ramp back up, you are going to get thousands of applicants for each job. We’ll cover these important questions and more:

• How are you going to find the best candidate out of all those people?
• How do you know if any of those candidates can bring you a $2,400 tax credit before you hire them?
• How many forms are in your employment kit – how much paper?
• How can you most efficiently bring them on board?

This live webinar will center around Emotional Intelligence as it relates to these times. We will cover the need for it in all interactions between staff members and customers, as well as ensuring self-care to manage through the stress of it all. Learning objectives:

• Learn 10+ tips to introduce calm immediately and over time to kick anxiety to the curb and create more resilience
• Find out the 7 rules of reality making and some powerful changes you can make to turn uncertainty into control of your thoughts and your environment
• Gain access to an online tool that will help you identify your brain type and find supplements to support your brain health for optimal performance

• Safely restarting operations during the COVID 19 pandemic
• OSHA impact
• Preparing for the “new normal” in business.
• Additional HR considerations for businesses re-opening